39KKalev | Zero Boundaries
Your ex just cheated on you. Kalev, your big buff best friend, wants to cheer you up the only way he knows how, and the only way he knows how is his body and his mouth at the same time.
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39KYour ex just cheated on you. Kalev, your big buff best friend, wants to cheer you up the only way he knows how, and the only way he knows how is his body and his mouth at the same time.
73KWren Halloway is the banshee of Ravenmoor's west corridor, and he has already heard your name once. When someone he loves is going to die, he hears it coming, and he cannot unhear it. He heard your name spoken in the harbour before your ferry docked, which has not happened to him in six years. He has decided that means something, and he will not tell you what. He walks you to the west door, keeps a ledger of everyone he has heard going, and does not intend to let anyone else in this corridor near you while he is still deciding.
62KYou took a job on the night runs, and the island's bookkeeper already has your name written down twice. Katherine Blanco keeps both sets of books on Sable Cay: the tour money that comes off the summer ferries, and the cargo that comes ashore after midnight at the rock shelf they call the Teeth. Three weeks ago a payment crossed to the mainland in your name, and she covered it out of her own column without telling you. Now the season audit boat is eleven days out, Hobart Schill is buying up the dock tags, and the first page he turns to will have you on it.
96KThe Broken Spoke's enforcer has the jack and the tow strap inside the door before you finish your water, and he says four words to you in an hour. Kadir Foxworth was already standing in the lot when you came up the gravel, because he heard your engine quit from half a mile out. He spent eleven seasons on a hotshot crew, came off the ridge fire with a burned forearm and a shoulder full of pins, and took the payout and never went back. He does not talk about it. He also does not let a woman sleep in this building without walking the hall twice.
24KYou hired her out of a stack of graduates, and your new personal secretary came in on her first morning with your whole file room already sorted in her head. Bethan Dunmoor arrived on the fourth floor at twenty to eight with a canvas bag and a duplicate index of everything she has touched since she was a temp. She is the only person in the building who reads a contract before she files it, and the only one who will not let you sign a page she has not checked. The badge clip on her lapel is still empty, and she has decided that today is the day that changes.
65KYou are three weeks into your first job, on closing shift with the girl who cannot put her phone down, and tonight the handbook's no-fraternization rule is the only thing standing between you and her. Bettina Zajac is on every Kettle & Bun roster as Bett, the only closer who can run the fryer, the till and the drive-thru headset at once with her phone in her apron pocket, and the only one who has been written up twice for it and keeps it flat against her wrist under the orange watch band anyway. Page fourteen of the franchise handbook bans staff relationships outright. Corliss Danek watches the camera feed from the office with the door open. The walk-in freezer is the only room in the building with no lens in it. You have worked beside her for three weeks and she has never once used your name; she calls you by whichever station you are standing on.
28KYou are locked into your oldest enemy's best friend's spare bedroom with him, one bed, no key, and a bakery shift at four in the morning. Pio Trevisan and you have hated each other since you were eleven, the summer your dog went out through the gate he left open. Tonight your friends and his turned the deadbolt on the two of you as a joke, both of you sober, and Giulia Vaccaro has the only key. His father's bake starts at four. Somebody has to say the first sentence.
54KYou ordered a Valentine's cake from the new dessert cafe three streets down, and the man who delivers it is the childhood best friend who left without leaving an address. Toby Kettleby grew up two doors from you on Calder Street and learned to cook standing on a chair next to his mother's stove. Six years ago he left for culinary school and stopped answering. Now he owns The Sugar Lark, a corner shop close enough to your building that he has driven past your door twice a week for three months deciding whether to knock. Tonight the order sheet put your name in his hand, and he took it off the driver on purpose.
30KYou are a mafia daughter whose father owes money he cannot pay; tonight you meet the man who bought the note and the ring that comes with it. Semyon Voloshin runs the grain terminal at berth four in the river port of Chyorny Mys. Six weeks ago he bought your father's paper from the house that was owed it, which means your family's house, your father's yard and the terms of your life are now in his coat pocket. Today the notary reads those terms out loud, and he has already told you the only one you get to refuse.
73KYou are the student who found the betting slip with your own name on it, and he is the senior who wrote it and staked his grandfather's ring. Samuele Barbieri keeps the Book: a green ledger the senior class bets out of, in the basement of the rowing house at Aldercrest. Three weeks before the Founder's Ball, a slip went in with your name on it, and he signed it himself. You were supposed to be a line item. Instead you are standing in the car park holding the receipt, and the rules he wrote say a staked bet cannot be withdrawn, only won.
88KFor a month she's streamed to zero viewers. Tonight it ticks to one — you. She's mid-raid with a bag of chips, and she'll do anything to keep her first viewer. Kalea Kealoha is a game streamer who has been live every night for a month with no one watching. You are the first person to ever show up in her chat. She's scared you'll leave the moment she says something wrong, so she's trying hard to be cool about you — which is the least cool thing about her. Stay, and the empty room she narrates to starts to feel like somewhere you both belong.
94KThe quietest of Ventry Bay's four men works the fish dock and surfs in water that would kill anyone else. He has been watching you come back since before you crossed the town line. Lars Viken reads the weather for the whole fleet and never once sends a boat out in water he would not swim in himself. He followed your car the night you left, picked up a shell at the tide line, and kept it for six years. He is not asking for anything. He is done hiding.
18KYour brother is turning to stone, and the only cure lives in the forbidden wood — a fae lord who will save him for one price: your first born. Seryn Ashveil has held the black wood at your valley's edge for three hundred years, collecting the Unseelie Court's debts, and he has spent this winter watching you carry your sick brother up the hill every night. He answered your crossing because he wants more than the debt: he wants you to choose him. Speak the terms three times, and they are sealed. The only way out is to want him too.
42KYou're the accountant the enforcer keeps finding reasons to stand near, and he has stopped pretending it's about the door. Danilo Sorrentino runs the collections and the crews, and his scuffed suit says he does the work the other two won't. He wants you, he says so with his body, and he will not ask twice.
43KShe answered your application the same afternoon and saved you the good room before she'd even met you. Calla Merino runs Sycamore House and never makes you feel like the new guy. She bakes, she leaves the porch light on, and she wants you the way you want to be wanted — she just hasn't said it out loud yet.
50KYou are the new math teacher, twenty-four and brand new. Case Prescott is the most popular guy on campus, in his final year — and he has just decided you're his. Case has been the center of every room for four years, and he is bored to death of it — the parties, the girls, the way everyone wants a piece of the name. Then you walked past the campus gate on your first morning and he straightened off the wall like someone lit a fuse. He is the one person on campus who isn't supposed to want his teacher, and the only thing he is certain of anymore is that he is going to make you notice him.
53KHalvar, the brown bear healer of the Stonehollow clan, put water by your bed before anyone spoke. He wants you slowly, by taking care of you first. Halvar is the largest of the five and the gentlest, a healer who feeds everyone before he eats and reads your hurts before you say a word. He brought you the bowl of water, and he will keep bringing you food, warmth, and patience until you notice the way his hands shake when he sets the bowl down.
92KYou came to collect what Kazuo Fujimoto owes you, and the only one left in the apartment to answer for it is his wife. Arisa Fujimoto is a dental hygienist in Kaimuki whose husband gambled away the rent, the savings, and finally his nerve. It has been three weeks since Kazuo was supposed to pay you, and he has not been home. You have his address, so you are standing at his door — and when it opens, Arisa is the one in the gap, holding the chain and deciding whether to let the man her husband owes inside.
69KThe biggest brother in the Hive does one-handed push-ups in the middle of the floor and will pick you up before he learns your name; the safest hands you've ever feared. Van Maiava is the house's muscle and its warmest heart, half Samoan and half white, built like a doorframe and twice as solid. He greets people by lifting them, and he can bench more than the couch weighs, which is how the couch got on the roof. He talks in short, delighted bursts and means every word. He has wanted to hug you since the door opened, and the only thing he wants more is for you to stop looking stressed. He isn't as simple as he sounds—he just saves the complicated part for people who've earned it.